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Before Fiction : The Ancien Régime of the Novel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205107
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Before FictionDDC classification:
  • 843/.409
LOC classification:
  • PQ645 -- .P35 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel -- Chapter 1. The Impossible Princess -- Chapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 -- Chapter 3. How to Read a Mind -- Chapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment -- Chapter 5. The Demon of Reality -- Chapter 6. Beyond Belief -- Conclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Three Regimes of the Novel -- Chapter 1. The Impossible Princess -- Chapter 2. Quixote Circa 1670 -- Chapter 3. How to Read a Mind -- Chapter 4. The Aesthetics of Sentiment -- Chapter 5. The Demon of Reality -- Chapter 6. Beyond Belief -- Conclusion: On Narrators Natural and Unnatural -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

Before Fiction asks why so many early novelists pretended their novels were literally true when no one believed them. For Nicholas D. Paige the answer lies in a radically new view of the formal history of the novel in England and France.

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